Re: Mate for CentOS 8 (thanks)

2020-05-20 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I work at a government lab, and the reason ubuntu adoption is lagging is cybersecurity. It's not that Ubuntu is intrinsically less secure, but that its repository is so large that it requires a much larger investment in a security inventory. It's also the case that the ubuntu encryption is not

Re: Mate for CentOS 8 (thanks)

2020-05-19 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
Metoo. I use the MATE desktop, as the least annoying of all desktops available on all three of el6, el7 and Ubuntu LTS 18.04. As for el8, officially everything except some gnome is removed, KDE was never available, probably still not available, so meh. FWIW, I am evaluating el8 and ubuntu LTS

Re: Mate for CentOS 8 (thanks)

2020-05-19 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I'm just wondering why there isn't a gnome-flashback package, similar to the Ubuntu package? gnome-flashback is essentially gnome-2. Thanks, Art Edwards -- Arthur H. Edwards edwards...@fastmail.fm On Tue, May 19, 2020, at 10:48 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 4:45 PM

Re: Mate for CentOS 8 (thanks)

2020-05-19 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 4:45 PM Keith Lofstrom wrote: > I've done my feeble best to compile Mate for CentOS 8; my > result is not completely broken, but not ready for use. > Some of the graphics fails. "Mate8" seems to leak memory. On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 05:08:34PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: >